{"id":4219,"date":"2014-04-15T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jambointernational.org\/?p=4219"},"modified":"2014-04-15T08:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-04-14T23:00:28","slug":"%e3%82%b7%e3%83%b3%e3%83%97%e3%83%ab%e3%81%ab%e7%94%9f%e3%81%8d%e3%82%8b%e3%81%93%e3%81%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/%e3%82%b7%e3%83%b3%e3%83%97%e3%83%ab%e3%81%ab%e7%94%9f%e3%81%8d%e3%82%8b%e3%81%93%e3%81%a8\/","title":{"rendered":"Voluntary Simplicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can<br \/>\nafford to let alone (Thoreau)<\/p>\n<p>Voluntary simplicity responds to many of the critical problems of our era: environmental degradation, bureaucratic complexity, world hunger, a loss of social purpose and social cohesion, a dehumanizing economy, and many more.  This way of life represents a creative and comprehensive response to a host of critical problems customarily considered to be separate.  By coping simultaneously with scores of interrelated problems, this way of life provides a multifaceted approach that could not be achieved by addressing these problems on a one-by-one basis&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>   To live more voluntarily means<!--more--> to encounter life more consciously.  To live more simply is to encounter life more directly.<br \/>\nWe consciously trivialize the human experiment with shallow pursuits of money and social status that mask rather than celebrate the magnificence of the human being.  All the while a miracle of creation surrounds us and intimately infuses every particle of our existence. (From the book Voluntary Simplicity by Duane Elgin (1981), Pages 124 and 139)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone (Thoreau) Voluntary simplicity responds to many of the critical problems of our era: environmental degradation, bureaucratic complexity, world hunger, a loss of social purpose and social cohesion, a dehumanizing economy, and many more. This way of life represents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jambointernational.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}